Does hudtext lag easily?

[Chdata]

It seems to me that using a lot of HudText and SyncHudText either easily contributes to lag or is easily affected by your own lag spikes.

In some rare cases, hud_reloadscheme really helps out.

But is this just me or is it true?

Can anything be done to lessen the effects? ClearSyncHudText when you're not using it?

[friagram]

I have seen some people lag when becoming hale, but I have tried using no hud messages, or spamming them on prethink/gameframe... And it doesn't seem to matter.

Regardless of that, I noticed once i set my min and max cmd/updaterates to 66 players stopped experiencing as many issues. Some people have 33 or even 20 set for their updaterates, which is really bad

[VoiDeD]

Sending hud text messages over the wire is a pretty trivial amount of data compared to what else is sent every frame: entity deltas, the occasional full snapshot, ticks, usercmds, etc.

It is still pretty wasteful to send hud text every frame, though, especially if the text doesn't change as often.

[friagram]

Usually i cache it and only send it when it changes, but that was just to answer his question :3